Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: add initial sysfs support

[Alexander Williams]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:57 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add support to show the manufacturer, the partname and JEDEC identifier
> as well as to dump the SFDP table. Not all flashes list their SFDP table
> contents in their datasheet. So having that is useful. It might also be
> helpful in bug reports from users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Pratyush, Heiko, I've dropped your Acked and Tested-by because there
> were some changes.
>
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-spi-devices-spi-nor | 31 +++++++
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Makefile                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c                    |  1 +
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.h                    |  2 +
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sysfs.c                   | 92 +++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-spi-devices-spi-nor
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sysfs.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-spi-devices-spi-nor b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-spi-devices-spi-nor
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4c88307759e2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-spi-devices-spi-nor
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +What:          /sys/bus/spi/devices/.../jedec_id

Since mtd/spi-nor doesn't own this device (belongs to the spi subsystem), should
we put its attributes under a named subdirectory? Perhaps something like
/sys/bus/spi/devices/.../spi_nor/jedec_id ?

I'm just thinking about avoiding any potential for namespace clashes.
- Alex